3 congruent incongruities

[kitchen_kink]

Yesterday, in the Star Market parking lot at Porter, I passed two cars with two strange things in common.

On one, a bumper sticker with the familiar W.W.J.D. And on the same car, an equal rights sticker, ordinarily a subtle symbol of gay rights support.

On the other, a more humorous sentiment - How Would Jesus Drive? And near it on the bumper: Love Makes a Family.

In the subway, later, I saw an ad that said, and I shit you not: Abortion is a Decision Between a Woman and Her God. And in the sidebar: Pro-Faith. Pro-Family. Pro-Choice.

I swear, they don't make Christians like they used to.

Comments

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

My favorite sign along these lines was hand-written in thick black marker on notebook paper and taped to the inside back window of an old red Volvo:

JESUS PROTESTED

[fanw.livejournal.com]

I swear, they don't make Christians like they used to.

Yup, equal rights aren't just for heathens anymore! Yay!

[harlequinaide.livejournal.com]

Stupid christians, spoiling the one group it was okay for liberals to be prejudiced against by being all open minded. What are they thinking?

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

I know, who will I make jokes about now, Buddhists?

[harlequinaide.livejournal.com]

Hare Krishnas. They're always good for a yuk.

[amadea.livejournal.com]

Abortion is a Decision Between a Woman and Her God

Yeah, that's the slogan for an interfaith pro-choice religious coalition whose name escapes me now. I've seen their signs on the T, I think they sound rather nice.

As things go

[imlad.livejournal.com]

this is not that bad. I mean - you want to have faith? Have faith, just keep me out of it (I may have my equally weird faith, am pushing it on you? Am I, am I?). So if they feel that as a Christian the rigth to chose is an inherent right, who am I to argue?

Re: As things go

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Seriously. I think it's really cool, actually. I've had some Christian friends (and adored some Christian writers) who actually seemed to get the whole Christ thing right - ya know, love thy neighbor, hanging out with the poor folks and the lepers and the whores, and all that good stuff? Outcast, compassionate Jesus - that's a god I could get into. It's amazing and frightening what the Catholic church, and everything after it, has done to a really cool, decent man.

Re: As things go

[imlad.livejournal.com]

If we are turning serious here then what we really have most of the time is not Christianity but Paulity. The kind of Christianity you describe is what Jesus actually said. What is practiced is really more what Paul said and the fathers of the church added over the years.

Re: As things go

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Of this, I am woefully aware. That poor, misogynist, celibate schmuck. ;) Why these church fathers had to push their neuroses unto the fortieth generation is beyond me.

I'd lend you a book, except it's not mine. Have you read Elaine Pagels' The Gnostic Gospels?

Re: As things go

[imlad.livejournal.com]

No, but I have heard of this work in particular and the Gnostics in general. We are getting close to my "spiritual home" here :-)